Jimi Hendrix’s last concert performance, which included Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany on September 6, 1970. Sadly, Jimi passed away on September 18, 1970.

Faced with high winds and a torrential downpour, Hendrix’s tour manager Gerry Stickells made the call. “He’s not playing tonight,” Stickells declared. “Hendrix is not on tonight, not under these conditions.”

Promoters pleaded with the manager to have Hendrix go on, despite the foreboding weather. Stickells refused to budge. Instead, Hendrix and his band would play a rescheduled on Sept. 6 at 1PM. While the storm had subsided, a rain of boos greeted the musicians as they walked onstage.

“Peace anyway, peace,” Hendrix said to the crowd, attempting to keep things civil. When the boos got louder, the rock icon briefly let his emotions get the best of him. “I don’t give a fuck if you boo, long as you boo in key, you mothers,” he angrily commented into the mic.

As the band prepared to play, Hendrix again tried to quell the audience. “We’d like to play some music for you and we hope you can dig it,” he said. “We’re sorry we couldn’t come on last night, but it’s just unbearable, man. We couldn’t make it together like that.”

Though chants of “go home” continued, Hendrix launched into his set. It took only one song, a blistering rendition of Howlin’ Wolf’s "Killing Floor," to win over the audience.

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